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by jeremyw 17y ago
Wow, this reads less like freemium and more that they're using enterprise customers to bludgeon innovation out of the market. This new pricing is a pretty big step function, $10 for 10 users, $1,200 for 11 users. While I like JIRA and have
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Especially its deep test architecture.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Unalone's enjoyment of Finnegans Wake notwithstanding, deciphering the footnotes and expository ultimately doesn't have the upside that learning the English of Shakespeare and Chaucer do. I'd suggest readers try Joyce's wonderful short stor
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Some data. Here's Amazon's US & UK affiliate compensation charts. In the US, 10% on Kindle purchases, one of their higher payouts. I assume the UK program will offer specific Kindle payouts soon now that the Kindle is going internati
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Actually, there has always been vigorous interaction between OS and chip designers. See VM evolution, performance counters, matrix/vector operations. I think read-barrier support, as a proven technique (see the same video for transactional
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by jeremyw 17y ago
As Click discusses in his Google tech talk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI ) Intel could implement a hardware read-barrier and radically change the GC performance picture for commodity systems.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
So lame they only offer the sample chapter / read-and-buy funnel, for Kindle content. Amazon's wish-list value as a bookmark around targeted content for opinion and ancillary data (related literary links, Statistically Improbably Phrases,
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Slight tangent. Greater automation and the necessities of life driving toward a zero cost -- vs -- the ever bigger dreams of humanity, employing greater labor / more minds. I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify the two fantasies agains
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by jeremyw 17y ago
keyist: This would seem to make sense, but the Kindle has completely changed how I read and despite my fondness for the physical sensations of paper, I just don't have the patience for its limitations anymore. It's like using a 90s mobile
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by jeremyw 17y ago
It's a crime this isn't on the Kindle. A book about hackers? When I emailed the author, he was not so interested. Books I bought for the Kindle last quarter: 20. Books I bought on paper: 0. Update: It's also hasn't been submitted for Am
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Hackers don't need expository, they just want the goods. :)
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by jeremyw 17y ago
I posted some very simple amendments made to HN HTML that would make life much happier for iPhone users, as a quick (if temporary) remedy. But I think the train got lost after that discussion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470863
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Engergy: exercise! Discipline: honed by time's bitter lessons. Ambition 1, multiplying with partners: jettisoned. Uh oh. Ambition 2, outlook: had it, then found the Buddha. Fuck!
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by jeremyw 17y ago
It would help if they didn't use the word salvaged (i.e. rescued -- like a baby seal.) It's reuse, people.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
This guy is chock full of invention. Bravo.
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Across a variety of my employers, none (via health providers) have offered HSAs/HDHPs. I can maintain one externally, but the extra tax paperwork to see the same tax-free employer health dollars is painful. My assumption is either most em
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Indeed. And the catalog, given how backwards the book industry remains, is the key. My friend recently finalized his book with a major publisher. Despite efforts to edit electronically, he relented to five rounds of fedex'd doorstops. He
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Intel celebrates geeks in great ad(youtube.com)
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On a positive note, just talking about the reading impaired, several dyslexic friends find a large Kindle font and resulting short effective width makes routine reading possible. Similarly, my dad with his fading eyesight is again able to
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by jeremyw 17y ago
I've been thinking about profit sharing, not in the context of investors per se (who probably _should_ get equity), but the teams around various projects in my nascent company. I want to put things together quickly and formalize rewards wi
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Once you have a big knob to scale (or automatic scaling), you next need to identify points on the curve where app rearchitecture is needed, like adding a caching tier or moving activities out-of-band. It sounds like Heroku wants to help do
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by jeremyw 17y ago
What's new is a sense of managing our future comfort in a dispassionate and guilt-free way. Focus on future humans not eco-morality (which is connected, but not a necessary result.)
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Another real advantage is that you can mix generic Xen instances with custom dedicated hardware (for specialized problems) -- all on the same, fast private net. I've pushed a lot of backend bits between different server lots there, and my p
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Summary: another hosted trac site.
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by jeremyw 17y ago
The message is kind of insipid, but the affecting music and connection to kid-spiration certainly made my girlfriend tear up. So there's that. :)
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The Quest for Computable Knowledge -- A Short Timeline(blog.wolframalpha.com)
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by jeremyw 17y ago
Perhaps a moderator could change the subject line to "Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha (no screens)" given the absent shots. If this wasn't a request of Wolfram's, I wouldn't want to be the cameraman this week.
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by jeremyw 18y ago
Hmm, isn't Ruby an unapproved language inside Google? (i.e. not one of C/C++, Python, Java or Javascript.)
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by jeremyw 18y ago
most of our energy use is unnecessary -- from the article Saul Griffith via Long Now lays out a nice engineer's estimation of factor 7-9x required drop in personal energy use; mostly through deprival: we become vegetarians, travel little,
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by jeremyw 18y ago
Without second guessing them, it remains a fun curiosity that at their size and failure rate they continue to reject vendor expertise in this space. If Starling and Kestrel reinvent little, what can we learn about this counter intuitive be

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